NTPC disinvestment: eGoM to meet on Tuesday
The government plans 9.5% stake sale in NTPC which could fetch `12,000 crore to the exchequer
New Delhi: The empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) chaired by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is expected to meet on Tuesday to decide on time and price of 9.5% stake sale in power firm NTPC Ltd which could fetch 12,000 crore to the exchequer.
“The EGoM on stake sale in NTPC will be held tomorrow," an official said. The government, he said, was proposing to offload its stake in NTPC later in the week through the offer for sale (OFS) route.
The department of disinvestment (DoD) had successfully completed 10% stake sale in Oil India Ltd (OIL) through the auction route last week raising over 3,113 crore for the government.
The DoD has already conducted international roadshows for disinvestment of NTPC.
With OIL stake sale going through, the government has raised over 10,000 crore though public sector unit (PSU) stake sale so far this fiscal. This include 6,000 crore from stake sale in NMDC Ltd , 800 crore from HCL Technologies Ltd and 125 crore from NBCC.
Disinvestment secretary Ravi Mathur had said earlier that the government will be able to raise 27,000 crore through disinvestment in the current fiscal, lower than the budgeted 30,000 crore.
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